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...there are often too many appearances to the contrary. Like any ordinary human being, I also reach the end of my tether. I can only be rescued from that by the fact that so many care around the world and pray for us. But the level of repression and evil in this country is incredible, and the suffering that our people are exposed to is more than I can take. I am amazed at their patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bishop Tutu's Hopes and Fears | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...actress of rare beauty and artless eroticism who animated the silents' stereotype of the flapper in such films as Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926), deepened and darkened her allure in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and reached her apex as Lulu, the embodiment of sexual energy and evil in Austrian Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box and its sequel Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); of a heart attack; in Rochester. Unable or unwilling to accommodate to the Hollywood system, she saw her star fade out by 1940. Her crisp essays of reminiscence and criticism, collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this to be so. The villain: Hitler still seems the embodiment of melodramatic evil, a spellbinder sent from hell or central casting. The perpetrators: a civilized Western nation conceived the outrage of genocide and executed the plan with technological precision; if the Germans could do it, anyone could. The victims: the Jews, eternal outsiders, were traditionally treated by Christians with an uneasy mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horror and the Pity SHOAH | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...perhaps it might not seem strange that the soul of a killer should be sought in his posthumous neuroanatomy. In an age of scientific miracles, every field of human endeavor looks to science for the silver bullet to pierce the heart of a problem. Why not the heart of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Search of the Silver Bullet | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...alone to pretend to have found--the source of Lenin's powers in the pyramidal cells of his brain. Even if one were to concede that in principle, and in some far-off century, psychology will be reducible to anatomy, science will hardly give us the key to evil and genius, which are, after all, not physical but cultural phenomena. The problem is one of categories. Was Lenin a genius? Who is to say? In another culture, perhaps, a case could be made that the brain of the man who introduced terror as a routine instrument of governance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Search of the Silver Bullet | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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